Az 550-es években a türkök elől menekülő hun-avarok a Kaukázus vidékén rokon népekre, egyebek mellett már legalább száz éve itt élő hun-avar (onogundur)elődökre találtak...

"The Onogurs were mentioned by Pseudo-Zacharias Rhetor as Onāgur, who wandered under tents. According to Iordanes, the Hunugurs were famous for the ermine trade and they inhabited the marshes of the Maeotis, moved to Moesia, Thrace and Dacia and finally to the steppes north of the Black Sea. Agathias noted in 555 that the Colchis in a campaign against Lazis (Lazica) had defeated the Onogurs, and therefore the locality was called Onogoris. Geographus Ravennas put the territory of Onoguria in the vicinity of the Maeotis and he noted that the Onogurs were able to obtain fish in abundance, which they ate without salt as the pagans did. Theophylactus Simocattes mentioned in the account concerning the beginning

of Avar history that the Barsels, Onogurs and Sabirs were struck with panic when they saw the people called Var and Chunni because they identified them with the Avars. According to Menander Protector, the Avars forced first the Onogurs, then the Barsels and finally the Sabirs to submit between 558 and 560. In 576, the Byzantine diplomat Valentine visited the court of the Western Türk Kaghan, Turxanthos, who made a boast of his triumph over the Alans and Onogurs in spite of the fact that these peoples were fearless and possessed great military strength. The next piece of data is in the list of Byzantine bishoprics dated to the mid-8th century. The bishop of the Onogurs was enumerated among the bishops under the jurisdiction of the Crimean Gothic Metropolite. The bishoprics can be located between the

Crimean Peninsula and the Volga north of the Caucasus on the basis of the names on the list. So the Onogurs must have inhabited the region east of the Maeotis bordered by the Sabirs and Alans from the 460s until the mid-8th century and engaged in fishing and fur-trading."